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Submitted to Contest #55
It was my little brother who discovered it first, buried in the muck. We were playing his favourite game, King of the World, and he was scrambling up the trash mountain to claim his rightful realm when he slipped, and one pudgy leg dislodged a heap of what looked like femurs. They clattered down towards me in an avalanche, bleached white by the fat sun. I was wearing my helmet but I held my breath anyway as a great galaxy of dislodged dust rolled over and around me in slow-motion, and then hung there in the air, catching the sun, almost glit...
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